Two landmark discoveries reveal organic carbon on the red planet, shaping the future hunt for life on Mars.
NASA's Curiosity rover has captured "sun rays" on Mars for the first time, the agency says. The footage was taken on Feb. 6, NASA said, and showed the phenomenon as the sun set on the planet. This is the first time, NASA said, that the sun rays, also known as crepuscular rays...
February 2021 has been a historical month for Mars exploration. While humans have been exploring the red planet for well over 50 years, first landing on its surface in 1971 and then launching the first successful rover in 1997, this year has seen several firsts, namely the first time that ...
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this image of rhythmic rock layers with a repeating pattern of spacing and thickness. The pattern might have been caused by weather or climate cycles occurring while the sediment layers were being deposited, such as dust storms happening at regular intervals in...
Roy Wood
NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a remarkable image from its most recent perch on the side ofMars’ Mount Sharp. The mission team was so inspired by the beauty of the landscape, they combined two versions of the black-and-white images from different times of the day and added colors to cr...
NASA’s Curiosity rover took the ultrawide image using the Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHLI, located at the end of its robotic arm, which doubled as a selfie stick. The picture is actually made up of 81 separate images taken in a way that enabled Curiosity’s arm to stay out of shot...
NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover isn’t done blasting the Red Planet with a rock-vaporizing laser. In fact, its work has barely begun. On Saturday, October 20…
The search for life on Mars requires complex chemical analysis, which the Curiosity rover has tested for the first time. It didn't find anything, but the technique could be used on other worlds
The Mars 2020 mission, including the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, launched to space on July 30, 2020 and is scheduled to land inside Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. See the different components of the rover, the evolution o